I Got A Legendary Sniper Rifle - Chapter 200

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Episode 200
Ep. 200
After exchanging glances for a moment, the three of them decided to call over the easiest target among them.
“Um… Hanryeol~? Come over here for a moment, would you?”
“Ugh, Lady Yuna, why are you calling me with that look in your eyes?”
“Come here.”
“Go Dusuk as well?”
“Ha, Hunter Hanryeol, hurry up.”
Sensing that even Juhyeon wanted him, Hanryeol approached them as if he had no choice.
Of course, his true feelings were bursting with joy.
‘Hahaha, now you all finally understand the greatness of Lord Ilgyeok! Naturally, you should show proper respect to me, the right arm(?) of Lord Ilgyeok!’
That was the confident thought he held.
Of course, his thinking had two major blind spots.
“You bastard! If Ilgyeok was that kind of person, shouldn’t he have told us?! Have you ever seen such a cowardly guy?”
“I won’t say much.”
“I, I’m getting a bit angry too…”
“What, what?!”
First, the three rankers had no intention of showing Hanryeol any respect whatsoever.
“Master, that guy over there seems to be getting beaten up?”
“Well, rankers probably have their own circumstances.”
…And Hanryeol was certainly not Ilgyeok’s right arm either.
While Hanryeol was surrounded by the three Hunters and suffering hardship.
Bang—! Bang—! Bang—!
Ihyeon pulled off a spectacular feat, capturing three more Volcanno Drakes on the spot.
Every time Ihyeon pulled the trigger once.
“Wow~”
“He’s shooting again.”
“I, Lord Ilgyeok is so cool…!”
“Lady, young lords? Now stop… Ugh!”
The three Hunters watched blankly before repeating their torment of Hanryeol.
Actually, if you think about it, Hanryeol hadn’t really done anything wrong!
So why were the Hunters treating him so badly?
‘What kind of fraud is this? Hmph, it’s irritating.’
The sense of deprivation from witnessing Ilgyeok’s absurd strategy.
“To think you knew such important information beforehand and didn’t say anything, how audacious.”
“No, but Lady Yuna and Lord Juhyeon also knew that Ilgyeok shoots guns! I thought you knew!”
“No questions asked!”
The resentment(?) of having already seen Ilgyeok’s strategy on the 81st Floor without informing them.
‘Phew, I was already annoyed with him normally, so this works out!’
…And finally, even such keyboard warrior-like malicious thoughts.
Truly, a complex web of circumstances had converged to bring about this catastrophe.
“Ugh… Ilgyeok, please save this one…”
“Ah, thank you for your hard work.”
Hanryeol was finally freed from the three hunters’ grasp after I pulled the trigger ten times—after ten Volcanno Drakes had met their end in an instant.
The three hunters, their expressions now considerably lighter, began to praise Ilgyeok.
“You’re truly amazing~ I’d only heard rumors about Ilgyeok, but to think you were clearing floors like this. I should have gone down sooner to meet you~”
Yuna approached me with a noticeably closer distance.
“Our Diamond Guild has taken considerable interest in you as well. You live up to your reputation.”
Duseok, who seemed to feel more affinity with close-range hunters like Goblin Warriors and Tankers rather than ranged hunters, shook his head as if he couldn’t help but acknowledge it.
“Ah, what a relief!”
“???”
And Juhyeon seemed to have revealed a hint of his true nature without quite realizing it.
I tilted my head slightly at the sight of Juhyeon, then smiled and responded.
“You’re too kind.”
“You shouldn’t say things like that!!!”
“?????”
It seemed I’d had a similar experience before when clearing the Lich’s instant tower with Frontier.
Why couldn’t people appreciate my humility!
Though I felt somewhat disappointed, I couldn’t very well start bickering with these rankers here.
I transformed the sniper rifle back into pistol form and holstered it, then spoke to the rankers.
“I think it would be best if we moved now. But first, I have a favor to ask…”
“Huh? Where to?”
“A favor? What do you mean?”
I pointed toward the endless expanse of lava plains stretching before us.
“Could you help me collect the byproducts? It would take far too long for me to gather them alone.”
“…”
Upon hearing my innocent request, the rankers exchanged blank stares with one another.
Ranking 3rd: Kim Juhyeon!
Ranking 4th: Go Dusuk!
Ranking 5th: Jeong Yuna!
These were elite rankers occupying single-digit rankings in Korea, yet before Ilgyeok, they found themselves helplessly reduced to collecting byproducts…
Whenever they went to clear dungeons, their guild members or companions would always handle the byproduct collection for them.
Unless they were personally hunting on the 80th floors themselves.
So to be asked to collect byproducts without lifting a finger in a clear they hadn’t participated in—aside from tormenting Hanryeol—might seem like a blow to their pride.
Whoosh—
The rankers exchanged glances and quickly reached a conclusion.
“W-well… could you point out the locations again?”
“I’ll go.”
“M-me too…”
It was best to follow Ilgyeok’s lead for now!
When a Volcanno Drake struck from over 1km away fell in a single shot, with most of them not even able to cry out before departing this world.
Getting hit by Ilgyeok’s sniper rifle at this distance seemed like it would hurt even more….
* * *
Click—
The completion of clearing the 80s floors.
Even as the Frost Stone settled into place, the Rankers seemed to lack their usual sense of reality.
Despite witnessing it directly with their own eyes and feeling every detail through their remaining senses, Ilgyeok’s clearing had that quality to it.
They recalled Claude’s interview they had watched on live TV broadcast, from back after the past Lich Instance Tower clearing.
‘Well, there wasn’t a single lie in it.’
Everyone thought that was Claude’s experienced handling.
When a Hunter as experienced as Claude kept saying things like “I didn’t even realize we were clearing it,” “it felt like a dream,” “Ilgyeok shoots a gun,” the credibility actually dropped instead.
It was far more reasonable to interpret it as an intentional attempt to confuse people for the sake of Frontier’s exclusive connection with Ilgyeok that only they maintained.
But what’s this.
Claude hadn’t spoken a single lie in front of people!
Even the previous two things, which could be called personal opinions, were the same.
Every time the trigger was pulled, the Volcanno Drake that had been like a tedious nightmare fell dead with large holes bored through it, and if one could firmly believe this was reality, then that would be strange.
For the last five or so, Ilgyeok also showed them sniping from a close distance without maintaining distance like before, close enough for the Rankers to confirm sufficiently.
Truly shocking and terrifying.
“Everyone, thank you for your hard work.”
Meanwhile, Ihyeon spoke to the Rankers with a refreshed and relieved expression that was unbelievable for someone who had just hunted thirty Volcanno Drakes.
Hard work?
‘If picking up byproducts counts as hard work, then sure.’
It wasn’t wrong.
In the 80s floors where even a single step was terrifying, moving the distance Ihyeon had sniped from was itself labor.
Everything was fine, but the problem was that hearing such words from Ihyeon somehow made their blood boil and wounded their pride.
Meanwhile, as the Frost Stone was placed in its proper position, a calm notification appeared before everyone’s eyes.
「Volcanno Drake 30 defeated.
Frost Stone in proper position.
You have cleared the 83rd Floor.
Grade: S+」
Naturally, the Rankers had already cleared the 83rd Floor, so it should have been marked as S grade….
“Huh?”
“Hmm?”
“Eh?”
The expressions of the three Hunters twisted slightly.
A strange and ominous thought flashed through their minds.
‘Isn’t there one more person here who hasn’t cleared the 83rd Floor?’
And as if by promise, the three people’s heads turned toward the same place.
There was.
Grin—
There stood Hanryeol, his mouth stretched so wide his smile reached his ears.
Hanryeol had yet to clear the 83rd Floor.
Not only had he failed to clear it, he had never even attempted it.
And regardless of Ilgyeok’s bus service, arriving at the destination was still arriving.
In other words, the clear record update notice contained….
「The 83rd Floor clear record has been updated.
Location: Tower of South Korea
ID: Ilgyeok, BlackDragonKing
Rank: S+
Warning: ID ‘BlackDragonKing’ has extremely low contribution. Penalty applied.」
Hanryeol’s ID was listed there quite boldly!
Of course, there was a caveat attached, but the fact that he had achieved an S+ rank for the first time besides Ilgyeok remained unchanged.
‘Hmm, a penalty.’
Ihyeon asked Hanryeol, just to be sure.
“Hunter Hanryeol. What reward did you receive, if I may ask?”
“Huh? Well, naturally a B-rank Magic Stone.”
It seemed the penalty was indeed the exclusion of S+ exclusive rewards, just as Ihyeon had anticipated.
The penalty wouldn’t impose things like Tower entry restrictions or stat reductions.
In fact, the highlight of an S+ rank was the exclusive rewards, so Ihyeon had no particular complaints.
‘Actually, it would be better if no notice was posted at all.’
And so Ihyeon’s business with Hanryeol was concluded.
The three Hunters who had been quietly watching Hanryeol’s happiness immediately called out to him.
“Hanryeol~ come over here for a moment?”
“Y-you, Lady Yuna, why are you doing this again?”
“If I tell you to come, then come.”
“Ah, this will feel refreshing again!”
…It was a future one didn’t even need to try to predict.
Hanryeol turned back to Ihyeon with a weary expression.
“Young Master Ilgyeok, please help me…!”
“Ugh, it’s too hot for this. You guys, let’s wait outside.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Right, let’s hurry out. We’ve seen everything we needed to.”
“We’ll wait outside for you.”
“Hmph, please do~”
“I have something to tell you, so I’d appreciate it if you’d wait.”
“S-see you later!”
Hanryeol desperately trying to cling to Ihyeon, and the three Hunters approaching from all sides.
“Kyaahhh~~!! Didn’t you say this outfit wouldn’t make you hot?!!!”
Hanryeol’s pitiful scream erupted precisely after Ihyeon and the Spirits had left the room.
* * *
“Here you go. The byproducts we collected earlier.”
“There’s no need to give us all of it.”
Ihyeon’s wait was not a long one.
Well, while there were reasons of their own, these were all Named Hunters with intelligence and morality.
Hanryeol and the three other Rankers had finished their discussion amicably and returned to the Tower where Ihyeon was waiting.
Then they gathered the byproducts obtained from defeating the Volcanno Drake and handed them to Ihyeon.
When all the byproducts from thirty creatures seemed to be collected, Ihyeon politely declined once.
From the start, Ihyeon had never been particularly greedy for byproducts.
If he wanted to earn money, he could secure a fortune using his Branding skill on just one or two items, so even more so.
But the other Hunters were equally ungreedy.
“Young Master Ilgyeok, just accept it. It’s the collective will of all of us.”
Hanryeol, with a somewhat puffed-up expression, stopped Ihyeon from declining further.
To put it another way, it was to say that while the Rankers lacked skill compared to Ilgyeok, they certainly weren’t lacking in pride.
The Rankers’ circumstances weren’t so dire that they needed to take a few byproducts from a conquest in which they barely participated.
“Then I’ll gratefully accept.”
Having roughly understood their intent, Ihyeon accepted without further refusal and took the byproducts.
At that moment, Juhyeon, who had been gauging Yuna and Duseok’s expressions, stepped forward.
“Um, forgive the intrusion, but there’s one thing I’d like to ask of you, Ilgyeok.”
“What is it?”
At Juhyeon’s mention of a request, Ihyeon raised one corner of his eye and asked.
Juhyeon hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“I talked it over with Yuna and Duseok…”
“Ugh, this is frustrating. We’re planning to do another conquest among ourselves, and we’d like you to watch us do it, Ilgyeok.”

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